Rahul was presumably alluding to frequent Congress allegations accusing the PM of lying on several occasions.

Jagyaseni Biswas

PM Narendra Modi

Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi shared a new word “Modilie” with netizens on Wednesday. He tweeted a photoshopped screengrab of a replica of the Oxford Dictionary website showing an entry of the word.

Rahul wrote: “There’s a new word in the English Dictionary. Attached is a snapshot of the entry.”

In the screen grab, the word “Modilie” is listed as a noun and is defined as: “to constantly Modify the truth”, “to lie incessantly and habitually”, and “to lie without respite”. In the subsequent paragraphs, there is a list telling readers how the word can be used in a concrete sentence, such as “Modiliar” and “Modilying”.

Rahul tweeted the same information twice. In the first screenshot he shared, the logo read “Oxford Living Dictionaries”. The new screenshot, on the other hand, had a logo that read “English Living Dictionaries”.

Rahul was presumably alluding to frequent Congress allegations accusing the PM of lying on several occasions.

Notably, this is not the first time the Congress party has used the word “Modilie”. It can, in fact, be traced back to 2012, when it was used to criticize Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat.